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The idea of “painting overall”, or “expanded painting”, provides a key to understanding what direction is Radu Comșa trying to lead us through. Incorporating divagations, extractions, references, Radu Comșa’s “transcriptions” (from one material to another, from one shape to another, from one conceptual frame to another) are referring to the art object as a form of intellectual replica of the artist’s own design of thoughts. His diagrammatic transcriptions (plates of cast concrete or panels of sewn fabrics which are informed by his interest in modernist architecture, concrete poetry, and atonal music) operate as visual morphemes expected to collide and further release extra meaning.

Double diapente 4/6/9

2016
pigments on cotton fabric (batik)
180 x 270 cm

Golden ratio 5/8

2016
pigments on cotton fabric (batik)
80 x 50 cm

Golden ratio 13/21

2016
pigments on cotton fabric (batik)
130 x 210 cm

Golden ratio 8/13

2016
pigments on cotton fabric (batik)
130 x 80 cm

Atonal Geometry [Cross-Rhythms]

2015 RGB grid on Grey (oil markers over cement paste on canvas) Grey...

Atonal Geometry [Cross-Rhythms]

2015​ ​ Red, Yellow & Blue grid on Grey (oil markers...

Transcription_Grey (after Claude Debussy's Nocturnes)

2014 series of 7 plates of concrete, inlays of offset prints...

Impromptu for 7 irregular shades

2014 series of 7 wood panels, acrylic, grey tights 60 x 40 cm...

Study for Transcription_Grey

[after Claude Debussy's Nocturnes] 2014 cast concrete, offset...

Transcription

[after Le Corbusier’s unrealized project - Audio-Visual Training...

Transcription

[after Le Corbusier’s unrealized project - Audio-Visual Training...

Phase 2-3-4

2014
concrete and oil-based paint markers on linen
60 x 60 cm

Phase

2014
concrete and oil-based paint markers on linen
55 x 55 cm

transmuted form_transcription

2013
wooden shape_sewing on canvas, 85x150cm_30x30cm

Transmuted forms / Transcription

2013 acrylic on wood (diptych) 130 x 60 cm & 100 x 90 cm cast...

exhibition view

Liste, Basel, 2013

Transcription

2013
cast concrete, inlaid paper cutouts
50 x 33 cm

Transcript (after Also sprach Zarathustra)

2013
oil on canvas
diptych
40x40cm / 40x30cm

Large Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

2012 oil on gauze mounted on MDF, rope variable dimensions (assembly:...

transmuted painting

2012
fabric, wood, primer
200 x 49 cm

transmuted painting

2011
sewn fabric, metal
200 x 58 cm